Victoria County History

stood within the castle, 64 and Hargrove that a gallows was erected on Knavesmire in 1708 . 65 Drake's statement need only mean that the gallows had been in the castle before 1379. Hargrove 's is more puzzling, for it

have been used for immuring prisoners, but Hargrove shows, although his account is by no means clear, that it was an entrance to the prison. It seems most likely that the building Hargrove saw demolished is that marked on the

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Reading of James Whitlock, m &quot; the Middle Temple, in 1619, of which there is a Copy &apos;* in the Hargrove Collection, in the British Museum; &apos;( Whitlock strenuously contending that Titles of Honour &apos;&apos; are not within the Provisions

26, 1646 . " Resolved, that Clifford Tower be kepc a garrison, with three score foot in it. " -( Hargrove ' s History of York . J In 1681 it was nearly destroyed by fire, and probably inten¬ tionally,-as

artificial mounds ; " a singularity which corresponds exactly with the base of Clifford ' s Tower. " - ( Hargrove , vol. 2, p. 14y.) As an inducement for sparing this ponderous relique, you wish it to be believed

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